Engineers, ethics and etiquette: Professional codes of ethics say engineers must always put public interest first. But when two Australian engineers did just that they found themselves ostracised
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How green is your golf?: Golfers from the US and Europe compete in Britain this weekend for the Ryder Cup, one of the sport's most lucrative events. But there is a heavy price to pay for golf's growing popularity
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Computer chaos at medicine's cutting edge: Doctors who want to make the most of computers to treat patients are being thwarted by systems that cannot communicate with each other
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Escape from Biosphere 2: On Sunday the four men and four women who volunteered to spend two years in a sealed bubble will come out to resume life in the real world. But does their experience bring us any closer to living on Mars?
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Table of contents
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Patents: Flight plan
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Technology
Technology: Ray of hope for 'old' televisions
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Technology: Monitor keeps fighter jets in finer fettle
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Technology: Old news acquires immortality on computer tapes
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Technology: 'Blind' ship sails bettter, says pilot
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Technology: A new calling for computerised phones
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Technology: Robots check the rotting of the reef
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American 'shoot to sterlise' policy
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Storm leaves sandy signature
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Vaccination risks are 'too small to count'
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Massive impact
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Pick and mix
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JET strike
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Spinning the light fantastic
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Sciencefest
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Fallow and fatal
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Dounraey danger
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Killer colour
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Living in harmony with forests: Next week, the first international system is launched for labelling tropical timber that has been sustainably produced
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Science: Buckyball electrons prefer pentagons
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Science: Poisonous peanuts linked to liver cancer
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Science: Molecular vase springs a better trap
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Science: Smooth flows the spreading seafloor
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Science: A curious tale of inflatable stars
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Science: Lightning clues to the world's temperature
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Science: Global warming cuts no ice
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Rabbit virus to be let loose?
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Big science under the microscope
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Are bats divided by more than a squeak?
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No ban on human genes in food
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'Come clean on acid rain'
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All is not well in the wok
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Industry to pay for data dream
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Your money or your satellite . . .
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First sight of 'invisible' matter
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Pesticides linked to breast cancer
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Opinion
Features
Engineers, ethics and etiquette: Professional codes of ethics say engineers must always put public interest first. But when two Australian engineers did just that they found themselves ostracised
Features
How green is your golf?: Golfers from the US and Europe compete in Britain this weekend for the Ryder Cup, one of the sport's most lucrative events. But there is a heavy price to pay for golf's growing popularity
Features
Computer chaos at medicine's cutting edge: Doctors who want to make the most of computers to treat patients are being thwarted by systems that cannot communicate with each other
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Escape from Biosphere 2: On Sunday the four men and four women who volunteered to spend two years in a sealed bubble will come out to resume life in the real world. But does their experience bring us any closer to living on Mars?
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Thistle Diary: Effluents, affluence and aliens - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
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Forum: Give us a break, Sir Ron - John Holman suggests ways of improving the science National Curriculum
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Forum: Fashion and fitness - Jeremy Burgess muses on the survival of some Darwinian meanings
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Review: Biology sticks to the basic text
Books & Arts
Review: Chemistry and the construction of life - A new academic year always finds students searching for the right texts to make the most of their limited budgets. 51¶¯Âþ offers help by reviewing books on chemistry, biology, computing and physics
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